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Interesting Catholic devotional manuscript ('Diurnale') in Dutch

[MANUSCRIPT]. BOSSCHE, Johannes Baptista van den.
Instructie om deuchdelick synen tyt, oft den dach over te brenghen, en religieuselick naer syn vocatie Godt te dienen, ghemaeckt by den Eerwerdighen heere, Johannes Baptista vanden Bossche, prior en pater, van het Syon, tot oorbaer ende profyt van syn religieusen int jaer 1617.






[No place], 1617. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red painted edges. (88) ll., last blank pasted to back cover). Collation: A-L8.

Interesting devotional manuscript in Dutch containing extensive instructions and rules for behaving, praying and meditating, and living a good religious life in a monastery from hour to hour. The booklet also gives the texts prayers and meditations to perform during the day. It is a sort of 'Diurnale' (a shortened Breviary), written by the prior of a monastery ('het Syon'), for his brothers.
Strangely enough the text seems to have been written by a Dutchman from the northern Netherlands where all the monasteries were demolished during the beginning of the Eighty Year's  War, and where at best the Roman-Catholic faith was tolerated. 'Het Syon' is an often used name for a monastery, for example a monastery near Beverwijck, or near Delft, but, again, these cloisters weren't in existence anymore. Or was Johannes Baptista vanden Bossche a refugee from the north and active in the Southers Netherlands?  
The manuscript is written in a clear, sophisticated, and almost calligraphical handwriting (by Johannes vanden Bossche himself?) in two scripts: italic and a script reminding the Civilité type.

The manuscript is very well preserved.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Catholicism  Devotion  Dutch  Manuscripts 

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